Ticket stamping and delivering machine.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

H. H. CUMMNGS. TICKET STAMPING AND DELIVERING MACHINE.

APPLIOATION PXLBD APR. 15.1965.

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HENRY H. CUMMINGS, NEWTON,

MASSACHUSETTS, ASSGNGR TO ADAMS D. GLAFLIN, OF HEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Lettera Patent.

Patented June 5, 1906.

Original appication iod February 19, 1904, Serial No. 194,334. Divided and this eppiieation le Api-ii 15, 1h05. Serial No.. 255,697

To all?, whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY HQCUMniNes, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newton, in the count of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, ave invented new and usefiillmprovements in Ticket Stam ing and Delivering Machines, of which t ie following is a specification. f Y

M invention relates to stamping devices, particularly time-stamps; and the object of invention is to provide an improved device 'of this kind. i

My improved time-stamp comprises e t e-carrier and means to operate it. 0n

are hereinafter described. on line 8 8 of Fig. 9. Fi 9 is a plan View of theplaten hereinafter re erred to. Fig. 10 is anelevation ofthe stripeeder hereinafter referred to. Fi 11 shows a iength of the ticket-strip used in the machine herein shown.

As herein shown, i have embodied my invention in s machine intended to be used particularl by cer conductors to stamp and -deliver tic ets to passengers; but it will be understood that my invention is adapted to timestamps of various sorts.

The machine I have shown has an operating member 3, controlled by coinoperated Fig. 8 is a section t e t ece.rrier is a movable type and oiock- Work or operating the same, said ciockwork being connected with the n'iovableA type through a yieldin powentransmitting connection, so that t e o eration of the clock- Work is not interfere with While the movable type is in engagement with the ticket or other obj ect being stamped-that is, the clockwork operates the movable type through the yielding power-transmitting connection,n A

' met-matter and fromwhich the present applibut the latter permits the clockwork to con tnue in operation while the type is heldV against movement by its engagement with the ticket or other object being stamped.

In the best form of my invention the clock-Y Work is an ordinary pocket time piece', and the type-carrier is provided with ineens to hoid said timepiece detachably the axis of the time-piece sebstantieilyin line with the axis .of a rotatabe member mounted on the type-carrier and connected with the niovabie type, preferabiy through the yieiding power-transmitting connection above described.

Other features of my invention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Fi Iure 1 is a front elevation, parti in section, o a timestamp embodying one ormo my inventionl 1. Fig. 3

is a plan view of the top sidefof t e type-oarrier hereinafter described. Fig'. 4 is a view'v of the under side of the type-carrier shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side view, partly in see'- tion, of the type-carrier shown 1n Figs. B'and 4. Figs. 6 and 7 are enlarged details of the thereon with i mechanism, so that it is normally iooked against movement; but by depositing in the machine a coin of the-proper denomination the operating member can be freed and used to 'stam and deliver a ticket. For an un derstan ing of the construction and o era- Vtion'fni this coin-operated mechanism, over. reference may be had to the ap iication forY pieten@ Serial No. 194,334, le by me February 19, 19(14, oi' which it forms the sub- VYcation has been divided.

The tickets used With this machine are in ti'eorm of a strip a, coiied iooseiy upon a cylindrical drum 6, xed Within casing. 1.` Strip a. extends from drum 6 under a 'guide-rod 4, and thence over a platen 30 to an exit-slot 3 l rovidethronghthe Wall of casing 1 at one end of' the platen. rhe operating member 3 is fixed to a short shaft 19, journaled in a bearing 20, forming. art of casing 1, and to the inner end of sha t 19 is fixed an arm 21, through which the strip-feeder 32 is moved in oneV direction,V a spring 35 serving to move said strip-feeder 32 in the opposite direction.

' entensionsiia is about thefsame as the width areiin derod 4 and then over platen 30 type-carrier shown in Figs. 3, 4, ando and to exit 3l. Type-carrier 4D is made with The strip Ystai'nping orv impressing means:

atzits opposite end 'the of :stri e, .soY that the latter can be passed` f y Fixed toV pockets 42 upon its under face adapted to receive types 43, bearing desired characters. These types 43 are held within pockets 42 by sta lelike detents 44, forced or sprung into sai pockets behind the 4types and which can be removed when different t es are to be substituted for 'those alrea y in place. Alongside the pockets 42 is a series of characters 45, arranged in a circle and herein shown asprovided uponthe outer-face of airing-46, driven into a recess rovided in type-carrier 4U'to receive! it. 'v =hese"cliaracters 45 are twelve in number and arranged in two semicircular groups each includingthe characters 112,1)::471cr6u 8, (110, aand 4:1 12,7: one of said roups representing A3.M. and the other 'Prv Within the ring 46 is a movable type-block 47, havin for its character'an arrow. .This

`typebloc 47 isintegralwith avspindle 48,

journaled in al bearing on'type-carrier 40 and carrying at its upper end| 'a -gear 49, driven through an idler 5() by= al inion 51, having one-half the number "of teet ofgear 49.

pinion 51is a crank-arm 52, `forked at its outer end to .adapt it to be connected with a clockwork- 53, herein shown as anV ordinarywatch with its minute-hand and crystal removed, and held in place upon four posts 54 concentrically with relation to pinf `ion 51 and the axis of arm 52 by a spring-'arm 55, 'fastened to the type-carrier 40. The forked end of arm 52 straddles the hour-hand of watch 53, as indicated in Fig'. 7, and said arm and its pinion ithereby are caused to rotate with said hand. This rotation of pinion 51 acts through idler 50 andgear .49 to rotate the type-bloc,k 47, which, as will be obviens, moves at half'the.s eed of the hourhand of the watch 53. T e purpose of this speed-reducn train of gears 1s to reduce the strain on the elicate hour-hand of the watch 53I and, secondarily, to provide for the arrangement of twenty-four hour-spaces infthe single ring of characters 46. A V

By'reference to Figs. 6 and 7 it will be seen that spindle 48 at its-upper end has fixed rigidly to it bly-I gneans of a screw 48 a head 48b on which the gear 49 is loosely ournaled, and said gear is connected with the head 48p by means of a spring 48, fastened at oneend to gear 49 and at its other'end to the head 48".

This construction is used to revent-strain on w the 4delicate mechanism o Vthewatch 53, while t 'e-block 47 is in enga ement with strip a, uring which timesaid lock is prevented frorn turning,

engagement o block 47 with strip a. In other words, the spring 48c provides a yielding connection between gear 494 and s ilidle 48, through whichy watch 53 drives sai spindle. In order to hold Watch 53 against roand deliver. transfer-tickets nected with the rotatable as Wellas to prevent watch 53 from being stopped by a prolonged socket 59v in engagement with one end of a toggle member 60. At its other end the toggle member 60V is pivotally mounted upon a stud 61, fast `.to operating member 3 and extending through a slot 62,-provided1in casing 1. That art of operating member 3 be tween stud)A lkrand-'shaft 19 constitutes the other`` member `oidzhe toggle. Byremoving pin 41 type-canie1r40 can be quickly disconnected `from to gleiO and` removed when changes lare to'e made=in the type and as easily returned lto place. To 4operate the type-carrier, member 3 is swung from itsnormal osition in a directienopposi-te tothat 1n whic it is swung' tofoperate the feeder 32- Vt .e.', to the left in Fig. 2. The top face of the platen 30 is covered by a pad 57, of tough but more or less yielding material, such as leather, sothat when t e-carrier 4() is lowered and the type carrie thereb are forced down upon t e paper strip a. t e characters of the ty e are embossed u on the strip.

gy the above escribed construction I have provided a com act, light, and portable time-stamp especial y adapted' to be embodied 4in a ticketl stamping and delivering ctors t0 stamp to passe ers wherein few parts are employed, and t ey are so organized and arranged that they cannot be effected by rough handling of the instrument and -occupy b ut a small amount of ace.

1. In a ticket stamping and deliverin machine, the combination of a stampin dgevice provided with rotatable ty e a watclfi-holder on the stamping device an means thereon to detachably secure a watch, and means, contype, to engage the hand of the watch, whereby the driving-train between the watch mechanismand type is established.

2. In a. ticket stamping anddeliverin machine, the combination of a'stamping` evice machine for use by car co IOO ros

provided with rotatable type, a watc -holder on the stamping device, and aspring-slip to detachably secure the watch upon the stamping device, and a crank-ann, yieldingly connected with the rotatable t e, adapted to engage the hand of th wete 1, whereby the driving-trainbbetween e Watch 'mechanism y and t e is established.

a' ticket stampiiig and delivering mathe combination of the manually-epa platen and type-carriers pivot3 and operated by the said leder, strip-feeder, connections chine, erable lever, ally connected ver, a strip-hol by m at Boston, Massachusetts, this th day of April, 1905.

Y HENRY H.'CUMMNGS.

-feede and manually-opertypestamp operable by tia, 1y mounte hoder on said detachably, to engage a between the strip abe lever, the strip-feeder'and connectiens being rgternafel said lever, type-Whees, yrota on the type-carrier, carrier and means watchhfmd with the type-Wheels.

JGSEPH T. BRENNAN, GRAU E. Grlozmr 

